Pairing Up
relationships in which individuals live together in a sexual relationship
What are conjugal unions?
What is script theory?
Marriage between partners who are from different social, racial, religious, ethnic or cultural backgrounds.
Intermarriage
Opposition of incompatible needs and principles
What is conflict?
This theory traces the origins of sexual attraction to our prehistoric ancestors
What is Evolutionary Psychology and Attraction?
This time period was characterized by an increased necessity to regulate marriage and legitimacy of children
What is the Middle Ages?
When individuals are attracted to one another, fall in love, and decide to marry.
Free-choice mate selection
Theory of Evolutionary Psychology, Propinquity, and unmet needs
Theories of Infidelity
when you are married and have a sexual relationship with someone who is not your partner.
Infidelity
Who we choose to mate depends on unconscious choices based upon proximity
What is Social Homogamy?
This type of marriage is characterized by a 60:40 traditional division of household and childcare roles
What is Peer Marriages?
Love, Intimacy, and Passion
What is Sternberg's Love Triangle?
When you are close in distance to someone; another word for proximity.
What is propinquity?
When families live near the home of the woman's family.
What is matrilocal
What is Older Men and Younger Women.
Another word for common-law relationships
This theorist suggested that individuals screen out unacceptable marriage partners as they date.
Who is Bernard Murstein?
What is divorce?
Heteosexual relationship between a man and a woman
This theory suggests that attraction is baed on what people are really like than what is ideal.
What is Attraction as Fair Exchange
The term used to describe the French Government encouraging French women to immigrate to New France (Quebec)
what is Les filles du roi?
This type of marriage has a lower divorce rate than traditional free-choice love marriages
What is arranged marriage?
A cycle of consisting of tension building, an abusive incident, and calm and penance.
What is the Cycle of Violence.
This ancient civilization popularized divorce as a means to achieving higher status in society.
Who are the Ancient Romans.
Explains attraction from a symbolic interactionist perspective.
What is ideal mate theory?